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Cybersecurity

When It Comes to Cybercrime Beware of Social Engineers

Luis Monzon - October 17, 2021

You would be forgiven for thinking that terms like phishing, vishing, whaling, and pharming all had something to do with either a water sport or a pharmaceutical company, but every one of these is a cybercrime attack. These attacks leverage...

Cybersecurity

What is the difference between whaling and phishing?

Staff Writer - April 11, 2016

One of the largest online security threats to individuals and businesses today doesn’t come from new sophisticated malware tools, but rather from distinctly low-tech phishing and whaling campaigns. A recent survey of IT experts from the US, UK, South...

Cybersecurity

Cybercrime tool Whaling takes over Phishing

Staff Writer - September 29, 2011

IBM has released the results of the X-Force 2011 Mid-Year Trend and Risk Report, which demonstrates the rapidly changing security landscape characterised by high-profile attacks, growing mobile vulnerabilities and more sophisticated threats such as “whaling.” The IBM X-Force team studies...

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